Ivan Stupnytskyi | |
Birth Name: | Ivan Saturnin Stupnytskyi |
Birth Date: | 16 October 1816 |
Birth Place: | Sukhorichya, Austrian Empire |
Death Place: | Przemyśl, Austria-Hungary Empire |
Bishop Of: | Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok |
Ordination: | 9 June 1842 (Priest) |
Ordained By: | Hryhoriy Yakhymovych |
Consecration: | 20 October 1872 (Bishop) |
Consecrated By: | Joseph Sembratovych |
Term: | 20 October 1872 – 22 December 1890 |
Predecessor: | Joseph Sembratovych, as Ap. Administrator |
Successor: | Julian Sas-Kuilovsky, as Ap. Administrator |
Ivan Stupnytskyi (Ukrainian: Іван Сатурнін Ступницький, Polish: Jan Saturnin Stupnicki; 16 October 1816 – 22 December 1890) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in present-day Ukraine and Poland. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1872 to 1890.
Born in Sukhorichya, Austrian Empire (present day – Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) in the family of judge Andriy and his wife Anastasiya (née Bilyavska) Stupnytskti in 1816. He was ordained a priest on 9 June 1842 by Bishop Hryhoriy Yakhymovych. He worked as a Cancellor of the Greek-Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv from 1858 to 1872.[1]
He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok on 8 September 1872. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 20 October 1872. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Joseph Sembratovych with 3 another co-consecrators.[2]
He died in Przemyśl on 22 December 1890.